{"id":511,"date":"2010-06-23T23:30:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T03:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scriniary.smallinfinity.net\/blog\/?p=511"},"modified":"2010-06-23T23:30:53","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T03:30:53","slug":"links-journalism-and-agent-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/23\/links-journalism-and-agent-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Links: Journalism and Agent Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week&#8217;s theme in reading was the death of journalism: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/print\/2010\/06\/how-to-save-the-news\/8095\/\">How to Save the News<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirky.com\/weblog\/2009\/03\/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable\/\">Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable<\/a>. (I thought I got those links from Steve, but now I can&#8217;t find the original post, so who knows. Thanks, wherever they came from.)  I still like newspapers, and we subscribe to our local daily. I&#8217;m interested to see what&#8217;s going to happen with the industry as the print model continues to fail and they transform from newspapers into newssomethings.  The transition is not a lot of fun for the people involved&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s reading was about agent pay, which has been discussed a lot, including by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfwa.org\/2010\/06\/are-agents-underpaid\/\">Victoria Strauss<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.writersdigest.com\/norules\/2010\/06\/23\/AgentsWontSurviveJustByChargingAHigherCommission.aspx\">Jane Friedman<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/jmeadows.livejournal.com\/782444.html\">Jodi Meadows<\/a> (with bonus &#8220;how to help agents&#8221;). Jodi said pretty much what I think on the matter: if agents switched to billable hours, it wouldn&#8217;t help them in the long run, and would increase the opportunities for scammers. (She says a lot more than that; go read her post.)<\/p>\n<p>Side note: I already have enough (too much)  to read, but I&#8217;ve been enjoying finding things from <a href=\"http:\/\/longform.org\/\">http:\/\/longform.org\/<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instapaper.com\/\">http:\/\/www.instapaper.com\/<\/a> (which lists popular items that people have saved). It&#8217;s nice to read longer articles; jumping from blog post to blog post makes me feel scattered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week&#8217;s theme in reading was the death of journalism: How to Save the News and Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable. (I thought I got those links from Steve, but now I can&#8217;t find the original post, so who knows. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/23\/links-journalism-and-agent-pay\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}